A5016206608- Mind wandering and attention
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
- Jungian Analytical Psychology
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Diverse Music Education Insights
- Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Child Therapy and Development
- Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Radboud University Nijmegen
2018-2025
Digital Science (United Kingdom)
2025
Tilburg University
2020-2025
Radboud University Medical Center
2018-2022
Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab
2020
University of Notre Dame
2014-2018
University of York
2014-2017
Aalborg University
2016
University of Victoria
1970-1991
Significance Although much research has been devoted to the acquisition of number words, relatively little is known about other expressions quantity. We propose that order quantifiers related features inherent meaning each term. Four specific dimensions and use are found capture robust similarities in similar ways across 31 languages, representing 11 language types.
Understanding the functional organisation of hippocampus is crucial for understanding its role in cognition and disorders which it implicated. Different views have been proposed how function distributed along long axis: one view suggests segregation, whereas alternative postulates a more gradual organisation. Here, we applied novel 'connectopic mapping' data-analysis approach to resting-state fMRI data participants Human Connectome Project, demonstrate that hippocampal longitudinal axis...
Physiological limitations on the visual system require gaze to move from location extract most relevant information within a scene. Therefore, provides real-time index of information-processing priorities system. We investigated allocation during mind wandering (MW), state where cognitive shift processing task-relevant external stimuli (i.e., world) task-irrelevant internal thoughts. In both main study and replication, we recorded eye movements college-aged adults who studied images urban...
During mind wandering, visual processing of external information is attenuated. Accordingly, wandering associated with changes in gaze behaviors, albeit findings are inconsistent the literature. This heterogeneity obfuscates a complete view moment-to-moment priorities system during wandering. We hypothesize that this observed an effect idiosyncrasy across tasks varying spatial allocation demands, and discourse demands reflects strategic, compensatory shift how operates recorded eye movements...
The striatum receives dense dopaminergic projections, making it a key region of the system. Its dysfunction has been implicated in various conditions including Parkinson’s disease (PD) and substance use disorder. However, investigation dopamine-specific functioning humans is problematic as current MRI approaches are unable to differentiate between other projections. Here, we demonstrate that ‘connectopic mapping’ – novel approach for characterizing fine-grained, overlapping modes functional...
What do we think about when mind wander and where these thoughts come from? We tested the idea that semantically rich stimuli yield patterns of wandering are closely coupled with compared to being more internally triggered. analyzed content 949 self-reported zone outs (1218 thoughts) 519 their triggers from 88 participants who read an instructional text watched a film for 20 min each. found associated memory retrieval was frequent than prospection introspection across both stimuli. Over 70%...
Mental simulation is an important aspect of narrative reading. In a previous study, we found that gaze durations are differentially impacted by different kinds mental simulation. Motor simulation, perceptual and mentalizing as elicited literary short stories influenced eye movements in distinguishable ways (Mak & Willems, 2019). the current investigated existence common neural locus for these We additionally whether individual differences during reading, indexed movements, reflected...
The field of psychology time has typically distinguished between prospective timing and retrospective duration estimation: in timing, participants attend to encode time, whereas estimation, estimates are based on the memory what happened. Prior research primarily focused attentional mechanisms explain behavior, but it remains unclear extent which processes may also play a role. present studies investigate this issue, specifically, role newly learned encoded event structure. Two structural...
One key aspect of the human experience is our ongoing stream thoughts. These thoughts can be broadly categorized into various dimensions, which are associated with different impacts on mood, well-being, and productivity. While past literature has often identified eye movements a specific thought dimension (task-relatedness) during experimental tasks, few studies have determined if these dimensions classified by oculomotor activity naturalistic tasks. Employing sampling, tracking, machine...
Vision is crucial for many everyday activities, but the mind not always focused on what eyes see. Mind wandering occurs frequently and associated with attenuated visual cognitive processing of external information. Corresponding changes in gaze behavior—namely, fewer, longer, more dispersed fixations—suggest a shift how system samples Using three computational models salience two innovative approaches measuring semantic informativeness, current work assessed whether these reflect prioritizes...
The endeavor to understand the human brain has seen more progress in last few decades than previous two millennia. Still, our understanding of how relates behavior real world and this link is modulated by biological, social, environmental factors limited. To address this, we designed Healthy Brain Study (HBS), an interdisciplinary, longitudinal, cohort study based on multidimensional, dynamic assessments both laboratory world. Here, describe rationale design currently ongoing HBS. HBS...
Structural and functional alterations of the brain in persons genetically at-risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are crucial unravelling AD development. Filippini et al. found that default mode network (DMN) is already affected young APOE ε4-carriers, with increased co-activation DMN during rest hippocampal task activation. We aimed to replicate early findings al, using gene, still principal risk extended this a polygenic score (PRS) analysis AD, Human Connectome Project dataset (HCP)....

 Decades of research have established that the content language (e.g. lexical characteristics words) predicts eye movements during reading. Here we investigate whether there exist individual differences in ‘stable’ movement patterns narrative We computed Euclidean distances from correlations between gaze durations time courses (word level) across 102 participants who each read three literary narratives Dutch. The resulting distance matrices were compared using a Mantel test. results...
Whereas social visual attention has been examined in computer-mediated (e.g., shared screen) or video-mediated FaceTime) interaction, it yet to be studied mixed-media interfaces that combine video of the conversant along with other UI elements. We analyzed eye gaze 37 dyads (74 participants) who were tasked negotiating price a new car (as buyer and seller) using conferencing under competitive cooperative negotiation instructions (experimental manipulation). used multidimensional recurrence...